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What is cut??
rwisner
Posts: 56 Member
What is cut/reset??
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You should read through the stickies... but a cut is when you're eating at a caloric deficit so as to lose fat. A reset is where you eat at your maintenance calories in order to give your body a break from cutting or dieting.0
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Cutting is eating at a deficit of your TDEE value..
We recomend a 15% cute from TDEE, although a lot of people go to 10%, or as high as 20%. This gives you a healthy deficit for weight loss and wont convince your body you are starving it:)
Reset is eating at your TDEE level for a period of time, usually 4-12 weeks, where you "maintain" your weight, in order to help your body understand that you are no longer starving it on low calorie diets. Typically if you came from a VLCD previous, your reset should be around 8 weeks, in order to give your body a healing period. If you did not come from a vlc diet, then you can go right to your Cut value. Although we do recommend a "diet break" every so often, which is eating at TDEE for a week or two.
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Thanks for the explanations ladies!0
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